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Quality of Life and Anxiety of Adolescents With Cancer and Their Parents: Neurodevelopmental Implications in Adolescence

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Cancer is one of the most lethal chronic diseases, which has been the reason for the majority of losses of lives globally. Adolescents with cancer experience a lower quality of life compared to both their healthy peers and adult patients. METHODS: In the present study, 237 adolescents and 460 parents were evaluated with measures of quality of life and anxiety. RESULTS: All patients showed lower performance on QoL and increased performance on anxiety measures. Regarding parents' QoL, although parents of all groups had low performance on all measures, parents of adolescents with leukaemia experience poor quality of life and increased levels of anxiety. CONCLUSION: Adolescents and young adults with cancer are going through a turbulent period of their lives, not only due to their diagnosis and treatment process but also due to the physical and psychosocial changes and neurodevelopmental consequences of paediatric cancer and its treatment in adolescence.

Source: International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience

DOI: 10.1002/jdn.70040

Authors: Kalliopi Megari, Dimitra V. Katsarou, Evangelos Mantsos, Vasiliki Miliadi, Elina Kosmidou, Agathi Argyriadi, Soultana Papadopoulou, Alexandros Argyriadis, Eugenia. I. Toki, Maria Sofologi

Institutions: University of York, University of Western Macedonia, University of the Aegean, University of Thessaly, American University in Dubai, University of Ioannina, Hellenic Mediterranean University

Language: English

Topic: Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life

Subfield: Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W4413114146

FWCI: 2.736

Cites: 57

Cited by: 2

Related to: 10